Marion Boyce APDG Costume Designer

Marion Boyce is an internationally renowned costume designer whose work transforms garments into narrative devices, blending texture, colour, and period authenticity.

 

In 2025 she won the AACTA Award for Best Costume Design in Television for Ladies in Black. Previous honours include the 2015 AACTA Award for Best Costume Design in a Feature Film (The Dressmaker), the 2014 AACTA Award for Best Costume Design in a Television Series (Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Series 2), and nominations for the AACTA, Emmy, Costume Designers Guild, and San Diego Film Critics Society Awards.

 

Her screen credits span television and film, including Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (Series 1–3), The Newsreader, Ladies in Black, The Artful Dodger (Season 2), The Gloaming, The Hollowmen, The Starter Wife, Nightmares & Dreamscapes, Barons, Run Rabbit Run, Nautilus (Disney), Dangerous Animals (2024), The Dressmaker, Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles, Joey, Zeus and Roxanne, and the television movies Hercules, Salem’s Lot, The Echo of Thunder, Noah’s Ark, and Moby Dick.

 

Beyond screen work, Boyce has designed and curated major exhibitions, including Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (Series 2 & 3), The Dressmaker (National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra; Albury), The Age of Elegance (National Trust of South Australia), and The Bowerbird and The Bride, which toured regional Australia.

Feature Films

DANGEROUS ANIMALS Costume Designer 
LD Entertainment | Directed by Sean Byrne 
Produced by Chris Ferguson, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Mickey Liddell & Troy Lum

RUN RABBIT RUN Costume Designer
Carver Films | Directed by Daina Reid
Produced by Anna McLeish & Sarah Shaw

THE DRESSMAKER Costume Designer
Universal / Film Art Media | Director by Jocelyn Moorhouse

NIGHTMARES & DREAMSCAPES
8 x Movies
Costume Designer
NBC / ABC (US) TNT (Coote / Hayes) | Directed by Various

CROCODILE DUNDEE IN LA Costume Designer
Silver Lion Films | Directed by Simon Wincer

JOEY Costume Designer
VRP Village Roadshow | Directed by Ian Barry

ZEUS & ROXANNE Costume Designer
Frank Price Entertainment | Directed by George Miller

TV

LADIES IN BLACK 
6 Part Series
2025 AACTA Award for Best Costume Design in Television
Costume Designer 
Bunya Entertainment | Directed by Gracie Otto
Produced by David Jowsey, Angela Littlejohn, Greer Simpkin & Sophia Zachariou
THE ARTFUL DODGER 
Season 2 
Costume Designer
Disney Plus | Directed by Ben Young, Gracie Otto & Ben Lucas
Produced by Ross Allsop

NAUTILUS 
Episodes 8, 9 & 10
Costume Designer
Moonriver TV | Directed by Isabelle Sieb
Produced by Xavier Marchand and Cameron Walsh

MISS FISHER’S MURDER MYSTERIES
Seasons 1, 2 & 3
Costume Designer
Every Cloud Productions | Directed by Various

HOLLOWMEN Costume Designer
Working Dog | Directed by Rob Sitch

THE FEDS
3 x 90min Telemovies
Costume Designer
Crawford Productions | Directed by Various

US AND THEM Costume Designer
Telltale Films | Directed by Pino Amenta

GLUED TO THE TELE Costume Designer
Vixen Films | Directed by Jo Lane

THE FEDS
6 x 90 min Telemovies
Costume Designer
Crawford Productions | Directed by Various

THE BOB MORRISON SHOW Costume Designer
Telltale Films | Directed by Various

ALL TOGETHER SHOW Costume Designer
Telltale Films | Directed by Various

KELLY
Series 1 & 2
Costume Designer
Westbridge Films | Directed by Various

BARONS
Mini Series
Costume Designer
Fremantle Media | Directed by Shawn Seet & Fadia Abbound

THE NEWSREADER
Mini Series
Costume Designer
Werner Film Productions | Directed by Emma Freeman

THE GLOAMING
Mini Series
Costume Designer
The Two Jons Pty Ltd | Produced by Vicki Madden, Fiona McConaghy & John Molloy

STARTER WIFE
Mini Series
Costume Designer
NBC Universal Television | Directed by Jon Avnett

BASTARD BOYS
Mini Series
Costume Designer
Flying Cabbage/ ABC Production | Directed by Raymond Quint

NIGHTMARES & DREAMSCAPES
Mini Series
Costume Designer
NBC/ABC | Directed by various

HERCULES
Mini Series
Costume Designer
Hallmark | Directed by Robert Young

SALEMS LOT
Mini Series
Costume Designer
Coote/Hayes | Directed by Mikael Solomon

NOAH’S ARK
Mini Series
Costume Designer
Hallmark Entertainment | Directed by John Irving

MOBY DICK
Mini Series
Costume Designer
Hallmark Entertainment | Directed by Franc Roddam

ROSE AGAINST THE ODDS
Mini Series
Costume Designer
On Set Productions | Director by John Dixon

 

Other Credits

TV Movies
EVIL NEVER DIES Costume Designer 
Coote / Hayes (US) | Directed by Uli Edel
DISAPPEARANCE Costume Designer
Robert Greenwald Productions | Directed by Walter Klenhard
STEPSISTER FROM PLANET WEIRD Costume Designer
Disney | Directed by Steve Boyum
RIP GIRL Costume Designer
Disney | Directed by Joyce Chopra
THE ECHO OF THUNDER Costume Designer
Hallmark Hall of Fame | Directed by Simon Wincer
ONE WAY TICKET
Costume Designer
Grundy Television | Directed by Richard Franklin
RAW SILK
Costume Designer
Television House | Directed by Various

Credits & Awards

Winner of AACTA Award for Best Costume Design in Television Ladies in Black
Nominated for CDGA Award  The Dressmaker
Winner of AACTA Award for Best Costume Design  The Dressmaker
Nominated for AACTA for Best Costume The Newsreader
Nomination for AACTA Award for Best Costume Design Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries
Series 3
Winner of AACTA Award for Best Costume Design  Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries
Series 2
Nominated for EMMY for Costume Designer  Starter Wife
Nominated for CDGA Award  Starter Wife 
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